"Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it." ― Carl Hiaasen Topic(s): Humor More From Carl Hiaasen "If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there’s just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing." "I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness." "From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at – you know, and the soapbox routine. They’re much more uneasy knowing they’re a target of ridicule." More In Humor "An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten."― Constance Rourke "The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter."― Alice Meynell "Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."― Jonathan Swift